Named objects in a graph

gistfile1.txt

// What Example 46 shows here: http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/json-ld
"@graph" : [
  {
    "@id": "#homer",
    "http://example.com/vocab#name": "Homer"
  },
  {
    "@id": "#bart",
    "http://example.com/vocab#name": "Bart",
    "http://example.com/vocab#parent": { "@id": "#homer" }
  },
  {
    "@id": "#lisa",
    "http://example.com/vocab#name": "Lisa",
    "http://example.com/vocab#parent": { "@id": "#homer" }
  }
]

// What we want
"@graph" : {
  "#homer" : {
    "http://example.com/vocab#name": "Homer"
  },
  "#bart" : {
    "http://example.com/vocab#name": "Bart",
    "http://example.com/vocab#parent": { "@id": "#homer" }
  },
  "#lisa" : {
    "http://example.com/vocab#name": "Lisa",
    "http://example.com/vocab#parent": { "@id": "#homer" }
  }
}

You can achieve something like that through JSON-LD's Data Indexing feature: http://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/#data-indexing

Note, you will lose the @id if you don't "repeat" it in the object... also, you probably don't need @graph there.

We were looking at the indexing feature, so we'll look into that more; thanks!

And good to know about @graph being unnecessary here.